While I find other woodpeckers in the uplands as well as along Cedar Creek, Red-headed Woodpeckers stick to the bottomland floodplain along the Creek. Adult birds of both sexes have the distinctive red head and black and white bodies, however immature Red-headed Woodpeckers aren’t red at all. Neither are they black and bright white. Plumage…
This summer a juvenile Little Blue Heron visited the pond. Young Little Blues are distinctive by their size, pale, dull green legs and blue/gray bill. Most common along the southeastern and Gulf coasts of the U. S. From time-to-time juveniles show up here in the Midlands of South Carolina. My suspicion is that they are…
Click on the above title to view pictures. July 6,7 & 8. Photo log, southwestern side of Mt. Pisgah, Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina. Gallery followed by individual images with comments and identifications. Identifications, beyond the obvious and whimsical, are from the iNaturalist ap.
February 14, 2020 Woods walk today with birding friends Steve McInnis and John Ebert. Highlights of the day were beautifully sunlit views of two soaring Red-tailed Hawks, Cedar Waxwings, and a Blue-headed Vireo. Overall we reported 33 species and 161 individuals to Cornell University’s ebird database. So far, the life-time list for our place, Horse…
January 8, 2020. Birds and animals aren’t quite as frightened of machinery as of people. Often, I get images from my car that would require careful stalking on foot. These are two birds from a flock of about eight that I saw on Loner Road returning from Blythewood. They were wary of the car, but…